Combined key-ring and button-hook



(No Model.)

H. W. PRATT.

COMBINED KEY RING AND BUTTON HOOK.

No. 281,297. Patented July 17, 1883."

N PETERS. mph. Washington. [LC

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT \V. PRATT, OF STREATOR, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED KEY-RING AND BUTTON-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,297, dated July 17,1883.

I Application filed March 22, 1883. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, HERBERT XV. PRATT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Streator, in the county of La Salle and State of Eli nois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Key-Bingand Button-Hook; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it apper'tains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figuresof reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents my device in one of its forms, and Fig. 2 is amodification of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both thefigures.

My invention has relation to combined buttoners and key-rings; and itconsists in the construction, as an improved article of manufacture, ofan implement of that class made of a single piece of wire, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

My improved combined buttcner and key ring consists of a piece of wireof any suitable kind, which is bent to form a stem or shank," A,tapering at one end and. bent to form the button-hook B, while the otherend is bent to form a loop or eye, 0. The free end D of this loopimpinges upon the shank, and is provided with means for the readyinsertion of the keys into the loop or their removal therefrom, whichsaid means may consist either of a ball or knob, fastened on the freeend of the loop,

The combined buttoner and key-ring com-

